Jackie Broon

no way back? cant agree there. well have 6 games left after liverpool and the next 2, and we are 3 points above the releagation zone. the lowest we could phaesibly be if we lost all 3 would be 18th, and thats unlikely as well Seven actually, but only two that are winnable. The rest I would expect us to lose unless we have a big turnaround in fortunes.

The next two games after Liverpool will decide it. If we get three or more points we'll be fine. If we lose both I don't think there'll be any way back. I just hope we put up a decent fight against Liverpool and take a bit of confidence from that. Even if we lose, as we inevitably will.

He's still a junior. Yet he's famous enough for me to have heard about him, and I have no interest in basketball what so ever.

He can dunk/block without his feet leaving the floor. He doesn't need any skill.

Just a shame it isn't a real sport. Why? http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/38/386129.jpg He can barely move around the court but could become one the most effective basketball players ever, simply because he is 7'7" tall.

Kevin Keegan is Newcastle United and Newcastle United is Kevin Keegan. There is no other man for the job! For what he has done for our club, bringing it back from the dead, twice! He deservers our unflinching support.

---------Neville---Carsley-------- Osman-------------------Pienaar --------------Cahill---------------- I'd like to see us play something similar: -------- Geremi - Faye -------- Milner ------------------ Duff/Zog ----------- Smith/Duff ---------- Owen/Martins Which is basically how we used to play pre Shearer under Keegan. the movement under keegans first spell newcastle teams meant it was hard to work out a clear formation. pav/hislop/hooper was in goal...cole/ferdinand was up front(till shearer came) and in between was very mobile and fluid. Aye, like Arsenal and Man U now, there's so much movement it's very difficult to tie down how they actually play. But it was basically a 4-4-1-1 with two, relativity defensively minded central midfielders.

---------Neville---Carsley-------- Osman-------------------Pienaar --------------Cahill---------------- I'd like to see us play something similar: -------- Geremi - Faye -------- Milner ------------------ Duff/Zog ----------- Smith/Duff ---------- Owen/Martins Which is basically how we used to play pre Shearer under Keegan.

More precisely, central midfield. We need a proper holding midfielder and a proper creative midfielder who can spot a pass. Break the bank to get 2-3 top class players in that area and it'll transform our team beyond recognition.

Spurs & Everton and the like have built good teams from a few established players but mostly from lower ranked clubs. Roughly half of both sides starting XI have come-up from the Championship. There are players out there in the lower divisions that can do a good job (Chimbonda, Cahill). Why can't we sign the next Aaron Lennon or Lescott? To a large extent I think it's because we as fans haven't given young players the time to develop. We're far too quick to get on their backs and/or write them off. If they're not an instant success they're s*** or lazy or greedy and are told so in no uncertain terms by all corners of St James' Park.

Yes that is what i have been saying since keegan took over, We need to scrap for evey point now, But this will be lost in keegans thinking he does not do defence. A bad shout from the board going for keegan IMOA. when it was so obvious we needed to go for dour draws week in week out . We will now pay for having an inexperienced management team, We will most definetly be relegated this season on our current form there is know way back. Our current form is terrible. But look at the games we've played! Despite our current form, we've pulled away from Reading (who've picked up two points from their last ten games) and Birmingham have only managed to cut our lead over them by five points in the last ten games. If we are going to be relegated both of those teams will have to finish ahead of us. Even on current form, that's unlikely to happen. Other than the Liverpool away fixture we've got a run of winnable games coming up. Our form will improve!

Ameobi scored against them, for what it's worth

When Keegan came in it was never going to be any different. This is mostly the fault of Fat Sam for wasting money on s*** players but partly just a freak of chance that we got the most unbalanced season I've ever seen out of the fixture computer. With the easiest first half of a premiership season we've ever had, we should've come into this incredibly tough period games high on confidence and in the table. But Sam's negativity and p***ing about line-ups and formations sapped the players' confidence and by the time Keegan took over the set of results (results, maybe not scorelines) we've had were inevitable. It was inevitable that our players, who are not good enough collectively to be anything other than a mid-table side and already low on confidence, would have whatever was left shattered playing Chelsea A, Man City H, Man U A, Arsenal A, Villa A, Man U H within 8 games. What makes it even more difficult is that top clubs still see playing us as one of their bigger league fixtures and delight in beating us. But we're over the hump now, we've still got Liverpool away but other than that and a couple of others most of our remaining fixtures are winnable. Things will get better.

Turnbull2000. Just simply f*** off!

BBC commentator: "cleared by the United defence" Which United?! The one that was actually a result of two clubs uniting, or the one that copied the name 12 years later because it sounded good?

The result is of f*** all importance today If Birmingham beat us next month it could be of massive importance to us. That one point might make the difference between us and them for the 3rd relegation spot.

Totti gets blown up by the mother of all bangers: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/135/bangha9.jpg http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1167/bang2aa4.jpg

Resurrection - Stone Roses. Although you'll have to chop off the five minute instrumental bit at the end.

He hasn't really had that many playing in his preferred position, from about December onwards Fat Sam tended to play him as a winger-come-forward, on the right Before that genius bit of selection he'd played 7 and scored 4.

I dont think i've ever seen Martins unfit TBF. More chance he's lost his sharpness infront of goal but TBH he never really had that. Don't worry he will come back fit and fireing. Martins gets way too much stick imo. Without his goals last season we would now be playing in the championship.

Given Beye Cacapa Taylor Enrique Milner Barton Emre N'Zogbia Owen Martins That side could definitely play a bit of football. Outside of Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool half of that team would walk into any other team in the premiership. Owen, Martins, N'Zogbia, Beye and Given. We have got good players, what we lack is confidence. The ability to play 'carpet football' is there.

Are you taking the return of Beye and Faye into account when you say that? Beye has been the best of our new players this season and will be an improvement over Carr. But I can't see why people are hailing Faye as some sort of defensive savior. Other than Stoke away, where he look immense (against fizzy pop players), he has been unimpressive at best. In fact, in 9 league games he has started we have conceded 18 goals, an average of 2 a game! I really can't see the return of those two making that much of an impact. Faye has arguably been our best CB this season. I seriously doubt he is to singually blame for 18 goals being conceded. The best of a very bad lot. And while he's obviously not individually to blame for those 18 goals, he clearly didn't make our defence much more watertight before he went away. So he's probably not going to have the impact a lot of people seem to be expecting on his return.

Are you taking the return of Beye and Faye into account when you say that? Beye has been the best of our new players this season and will be an improvement over Carr. But I can't see why people are hailing Faye as some sort of defensive savior. Other than Stoke away, where he looked immense (against fizzy pop players), he has been unimpressive at best. In fact, in 9 league games he has started we have conceded 18 goals, an average of 2 a game! I really can't see the return of those two making that much of an impact.

We're going to lose three of our next four games and we'll struggle to get anything from Blackburn at home. I think we just have to accept that and try to remain positive. Whether we get dragged into a relegation battle or not will be decided at St' Andrews, if Birmingham beat us we're in real trouble.

I genuinely believe we'd be better off playing with ten men than with Butt in the team. Every time he gets the ball he attempts a 'Hollywood pass' that invariably goes straight to an opposition player or out of play. It's like having a member of the opposing team wearing black and white.